hehe one day I will get around to having an online presence music wise - i started to go back over hundreds (thousands?) of cassette tapes!!! and converting them to digital before their lost forever - but i tired of it quickly
having to do it all in real time is a drag.
altho re the tandy 'tie pin' mics, a mate was the first that i knew of to have the first you beaut portable DAT (digital tape) recorders (1992?) and attatched the tiny condensers on either side of a pair of walkman head phones and used to walk around recording all the ambient things you hear - like for example he would go to the F1 grand prix (when it was in adelaide) walking around recording perfect human-hearing-like stereo!! i'll get one of those recording off him mebbe
he used to intergrate them into atmospheric/ambient music!?
but in recording we used to have a dummys foam head or push bike helmet and attatch them either side to get the same thing re live music mix - still did that ocassionaly up until maybe 5 years ago - my preferred quickie 'live recording' back then
mind you, i just remembered now he use to soup up the tandy condensers/tie mics, made a bit more powerful - so they werent stock standards anymore i guess
the fender valve (pre amp? or something else?) pedal sounds interesting Alex - altho i think the mordern ones are a lot better now mate, and fender factory valves are usually instantly chucked and replaced by the discerning electric guitarist
- its funny we/they spent all those years making pedals to poorly replicate the sound of valves (tubescreamers and some compression pedals ect. for instance) after what what was lost when everybody went to solid state for the cheapness and lightweightness, less heat ect. in the 80's, biggest rip off in history - outrageous!
but (EDIT: seperate from head) accessory valve pre amps only really to start to come out for guitars in the early 90's i thought and not really till '95 did they slowly start getting cheaper and become floor/pedal units?